You can use the IME to type in both Japanese or English as we will see in a bit, so this is a good option to remember.Īfter you press the Add… button, you should see this Add Input Language menu. If you become really comfortable using the Japanese Microsoft IME keyboard, you can set it here as your default so that you don’t have to keep switching to it after you boot up your PC. I personally use all of these on a daily basis and highly recommend them.Īnyway, for this menu click the Add… button.īy the way, this is also where you can set the default input language. In case you were wondering it is a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, and I highly recommend it if you are going to be doing a lot of typing. Yes, even if you have a physical Japanese keyboard you will still want to setup the Microsoft IME. My PC has it installed already because I have a physical Japanese keyboard (that actually has built in shortcut keys for the Microsoft IME) and so when I installed Windows on this machine it just automatically installed the Japanese keyboard along with the Microsoft IME as the default keyboard. The big difference will be that yours will probably not have the Japanese keyboard already installed. Then, you should see something like the following Text Services and Input Languages menu. You should then see something like the Region and Language menu below. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click on Change keyboards or other input methods Installing the Japanese Microsoft IME on Windows 7Ĭlick on the start button (that glossy windows thing in the lower left corner of your screen) and open up the control panel. It is quite simple to set up and use actually. This is actually a little freebie that has been thrown into Windows. Nowadays, you have this handy thing called the IME that does some crazy voodoo magic to allow you to type pretty easily in Japanese. As a matter of fact Japanese keyboards still have kana printed on them, but only older people use them anymore. Before the dawn of Windows, people who wanted to type in Japanese had to type with a kana keyboard. So it only makes sense that if you are practicing a language, you should be able to type in that language as well, right? These days you have it pretty easy.
Can you even imagine how much typing you do on a daily basis? Between Facebook, Twitter and email, your little fingers are probably quite busy typing away on the average day. Typing has become such a critical part of our lives.
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